Saturday, August 31, 2013

These last two and a half weeks have been crazy.
Training, welcome week, classes started, job started, and it was so hot the whole.
Sigh.
Also, living with your best friends: it's a positive kind of hard.
Because we love each other and we're trying to learn to work together and care for each other and understand our pasts and our dreams and hopes and plans; all this in an environment where we don't get to "go home" to get away from each other and have our own space.
Which all four of us need.

So today, and also the last glimmers of yesterday, have been amazing.

We had a movie night. When it was over we and everyone had gone we just lay on the couch and talked life until 3 am. (Sarah wasn't here. We wished she was.)
Of course having stayed up so late I obviously (at least to me) could not sleep when we did go to bed.
I chatted with my family and a friend until 4 something then tried to collapse again.
Read Matthew 15. Then sleeping worked.

We woke up around 10.30 and I made crêpes for breakfast.
We watched Sabrina for "cartoons."
Julia ran around doing things that Julia does like sing and go to auditions and get ready to perform.
We went to her band gig.
I wished Sarah was here for the hundredth time today.

Me and Kat took some pictures on a bridge.
We made plans to go back with Sarah and Julia.
We came home and said we were going to work but we watched "It's Kind of a Funny Story" instead.
In the movie, people ran down the halls to this song.
I love that song now.

And when the credits rolled we danced in the living room, just like always and ever.

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Well that unexpected hiatus was due to my moving into an apartmento with my three closest friends (third friend is arriving shortly but it counts anyway I think.) Sorry for the lack of warning but it is what it is. We have been busy as bees unpacking boxes between training sessions and generally making this place adorable. Hopefully pictures will pop up here soon... when I take some.
This week will be generally hectic again as we will end training for Welcome Week and actually begin shepherding freshman into their new lives as college students. This is all very exciting.
I am very thankful, in a round about way, that I have had no time this week for my dear blog. I was so sad to leave my family and then for my dad to leave Texas to go back east. But that was all before I was back in the swing of things.
I still miss them of course (goodness yes,) but it is not crushing me.
God has me here and this is where I am. Good things are going to happen guys.
So now I do not have an extremely sad post from last week to look back on in the future. I have this one telling you it is bitter-sweet but I am excited.

To all my friends who are about to be freshman I say again: remember to breathe. The year will run away from you. I feel like my last year barely happened. Yet here we are, in the next year confident and still not having a clue at the same time. It will be grand. Just remain calm and breathe in...